OS X leopard install Q

Johnny|lucidcomposure

Johnny|lucidcomposure

Johnny|lucidcomposure

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I am gonna buy a new iMac in a couple of weeks so I will be on leopard anyway. But I just wondered that would it be possible to stick a copy on my old G4 Powerbook by ripping the disk to the hdd or something as my superdrive is no longer very super and needs replacing.
I wondered if it was possible to put the disk on my ipod nano and boot it from there?

If not then no worries I just would have liked all of my hardware on leopard.
 
I'm sure you could make a disk image of it, but I'm not sure how you would go about installing it without a optical drive.
 
You could copy the disk image to an external HDD then boot from that.

Otherwise you'll need to burn the image to a DL-DVD.

*I give this advice for backup purposes, installing it on more than one machine violates the EULA*
 
No no thats what I am saying.
I am buying an iMac anyway so the laptop wont get used much anyway. I would end up with two copies of leopard but probably unable to install it on the laptop with a buggered superdrive.

I only wondered anyway. I'l prob end up getting a newer Macbook Pro anyway but I was only curious.
 
It's ok.. I'm just saying, I can't really tell you *exactly* how to do it as it'd be against the forum rules.

I see where you're coming from though.

No reason it wouldn't work from a disk image on it's own partition.. you could then use Leopard to resize the partition after you've finished installing?
 
As EVH has mentioned you can bypass the need for an optical drive by sourcing the installer disk image onto a bootable partition on an external hard drive.

However, isn't there some inbuilt protection with the Leopard discs that come exclusive to a particular machine? As in you can try installing it and it will tell you the discs are for an iMac only?
 
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